about Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas

Spanish

The Spanish Program at the University of Hawaiʻi offers core courses in the literatures of Latin America, Spain and the Latina/o populations in the United States, plus additional courses in cultural studies, linguistics and film.

Russian

The Russian Program at the University of Hawai’i offers courses in Russian language, literature, culture, and film. Students from our program have gone on to successful jobs in commerce, communications, government, and higher education.

German

The German Program at the University of Hawai’i offers courses in language, linguistics, literature, culture and film. A very high percentage of the students who take introductory German continue on to take upper division classes.

French

The French Program at the University of Hawai‘i offers core courses in the literatures of France and Francophone countries throughout the world, plus additional courses in cultural studies, language and linguistics, and film.

Classics

The Classics Program at the University of Hawai’i offers courses in ancient Greek and classical Latin, which traditionally constitute the foundation of every Classics program and which have as their aim to read and understand classical literary texts in the original languages.

Professor Emeritus Yi-Fu Tuan:

Cultural Diversity and the Ideal of Progress

Wed. March 13, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
UH Mānoa – Art Auditorium

Yi-Fu Tuan has been called “one of the most remarkable and creative forces in the intellectual life of our time,” by Simon Schama, of Columbia University, and “a scholar with immense learning and an original point of view…who has reinvented our notions of space and place,” by Michael Kammen of Cornell.

The author of over two dozen influential books, Tuan has redefined the field of human and cultural geography by exploring the aesthetic and moral dimensions of h­­­­­uman culture and the meanings of home, place, wilderness, human goodness, art, and environment.

Born and raised in China, Yi-Fu Tuan was educated in Australia and the Philippines in his early teens, then earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley.

With his cosmopolitan upbringing, he moved to the American Midwest to teach. He became a full professor at the University of Minnesota in 1968, and later spent 15 years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before retiring as the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography.

Yi-Fu Tuan remains fully engaged in writing and publishing. His most recent books include: Landscapes of Fear, Human Goodness, and Coming Home to China. His other books include: Dominance and Affection, Place, Art, and Self, Place and Space: The Perspective of Experience, and the ground-breaking Topophila: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values.

This free public reading is made possible by an estate gift from the late Dr. Dai Ho Chun that established the Dai Ho Chun Endowment for Distinguished Lecturers at the UH Mānoa Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Chun was a distinguished and visionary educator. The lecture is also sponsored by the UH Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, with additional help from the Dai Ho Chun Endowment Selection Committee, UH Mānoa Geography Department, and Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Books will be available for purchase at the event, made possible by the University of Hawai‘i Bookstore.